Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skirt was lovely , there was no doubt of that , swishing down rustling folds to the deep ruffle at the hem , but she was doubtful about managing the small train , even after an hour of practice in front of Aunt Emily . |
| 2 | Compared with a survey carried out in 1985 , Inform found that many companies had switched their emphasis from cleaning up polluting waste to cutting it out at source . |
| 3 | With the support of the government agriculture research institute ( INIAP ) in Ecuador , I would have systematically to travel through the Amazon region of Ecuador , locating the wild cocoa and bringing back planting material to my base at the Napo Research Station . |
| 4 | Just after eleven , Loretta was handing out reading lists to the dozen students who wanted to attend her seminars on Virginia Woolf when there was a knock at the door . |
| 5 | And beckoning along drifting strata to the tug |